Remember where you was that day?

[tikay]

Ha I was stood in the car park offering my laptop out to those who needed it

Oi, answer your phone!

[I KNOW IT]

I better recall where I was when.....

Kennedy was asassinated.

John Lennon ditto.

The Great Tsunami.

The two off duty (?) soldiers in Northern Ireland who were dragged from their car & beaten to death.

Was this during an IRA funeral procession and they stripped them naked against a wall?
If so I was very young when I was watching this on the news and could not understand why the Army helicopter above didn't start  shooting and rescue them. Also why the one soldier didnt shoot the crowd instead of in the air. Maybe if they knew their fate they would of

[pokerfan]

It was earlier but i remember Bradford like it was yesterday, yet have no recollection of where i was for Hillsborough.

[Redsgirl]

I was a little young for Hillsborough to have any real impact on me, so no memory.

Diana was killed on the morning of my twentieth birthday, went to my cousins early to have my uncle open the door and say 'Di's died!'

9/11, (my granny's birthday) We had just moved and hadn't yet got a proper reception on our telly,
when I get an hysterical phonecall from my slightly highly strung mother in law crying 'Its world war three! They just blew the White house up!' before slamming the phone down.
 Cue much hilarity and eye rolling at our end, and comments of 'Your Dad must have his Independence day DVD on' but we did put the telly on, and with the help of a fork stuck in the back get a very staticy picture just in time to see the first tower fall.
Talked about stunned silence.

7/7, I kid you not, is my sister Bridie's birthday, and I was at home with my youngest baby with the BBC news channel on in the background, so I kind of watched it as it unfolded.
If anyone else remembers watching it was one of those weired situations where you can see from the footage something really bad is happening, but the news readers cant say.
 They kept saying there had been a power surge on the underground, but at the same time taking those 'on the scene' phonecalls from traumatised people describing the carnage. Awful.

[celtic]

I was a little young for Hillsborough to have any real impact on me, so no memory.

Diana was killed on the morning of my twentieth birthday, went to my cousins early to have my uncle open the door and say 'Di's died!'

9/11, (my granny's birthday) We had just moved and hadn't yet got a proper reception on our telly,
when I get an hysterical phonecall from my slightly highly strung mother in law crying 'Its world war three! They just blew the White house up!' before slamming the phone down.
 Cue much hilarity and eye rolling at our end, and comments of 'Your Dad must have his Independence day DVD on' but we did put the telly on, and with the help of a fork stuck in the back get a very staticy picture just in time to see the first tower fall.
Talked about stunned silence.

7/7, I kid you not, is my sister Bridie's birthday, and I was at home with my youngest baby with the BBC news channel on in the background, so I kind of watched it as it unfolded.
If anyone else remembers watching it was one of those weired situations where you can see from the footage something really bad is happening, but the news readers cant say.
 They kept saying there had been a power surge on the underground, but at the same time taking those 'on the scene' phonecalls from traumatised people describing the carnage. Awful.

Lol, can I have a list of the entire dog family birthdays, so I know not to go out

[kinboshi]

I better recall where I was when.....

Moses parted the Red Sea.

[Redsgirl]

I better recall where I was when.....

Moses parted the Red Sea.

Nah, that memory is a bit hazy, due to him celebrating a big birthday the night before.

[Redsgirl]

I was a little young for Hillsborough to have any real impact on me, so no memory.

Diana was killed on the morning of my twentieth birthday, went to my cousins early to have my uncle open the door and say 'Di's died!'

9/11, (my granny's birthday) We had just moved and hadn't yet got a proper reception on our telly,
when I get an hysterical phonecall from my slightly highly strung mother in law crying 'Its world war three! They just blew the White house up!' before slamming the phone down.
 Cue much hilarity and eye rolling at our end, and comments of 'Your Dad must have his Independence day DVD on' but we did put the telly on, and with the help of a fork stuck in the back get a very staticy picture just in time to see the first tower fall.
Talked about stunned silence.

7/7, I kid you not, is my sister Bridie's birthday, and I was at home with my youngest baby with the BBC news channel on in the background, so I kind of watched it as it unfolded.
If anyone else remembers watching it was one of those weired situations where you can see from the footage something really bad is happening, but the news readers cant say.
 They kept saying there had been a power surge on the underground, but at the same time taking those 'on the scene' phonecalls from traumatised people describing the carnage. Awful.

Lol, can I have a list of the entire dog family birthdays, so I know not to go out

Mrs Reds is on New year eve...

[The Camel]

9/11 I was flying to Vegas, was on the last flight out of London which didn't turn back. Diverted to Calgary and spent the first night on a shcool gym floor as all hotel rooms had long since sold out. Literally did not find out what had happened until 12 hours afterwards as noone at the airport would say a word - Found out later there was a rumour of another hijacking planned on a transatlantic plane, hence it took 4 hours plus to get through security. as everything was searched thoroughly.

I was taking my young nephew to Vegas and he noticed about 3 hours before landing the destination had changed to Calgary. We asked a stewardess what was happening and she told us it was broken and not to worry!

But the most surreal moment was just before coming into land - we still thought we were approaching Vegas.

The captain came over the intercom "I have to inform you all US airspace is closed and we are having to land in Canada"

Panic ensued. He didn't tell us why the airspace was closed - the only which made any sense was a nuclear attack. A crash or something and a couple of airports might be closed, but that wouldn't explain all airspace being shut.

Some seriously upset people naturally.

All in all a pretty weird day.


Was playing poker at the Vic the evening Di had the crash. Lots of jokes and laughter as no one had any idea how serious it was. Wasn't til the next morning realised she had died.

Was racing at Newbury the day of Hillsbrough. Saw some pictures at the track, but had no idea what was happening until listening to reports on the radio driving home.

7/7 was in Vegas. Just glued to CNN for about 2 days.

[MLHMLH]

John Lennon's murder - I was 8 years old and asleep in bed when my Dad shouted upstairs to my Mum that John Lennon had died.  I remember her crying in her bedroom.

Hillsborough - I was at Leeds Road watching Huddersfield Town. At half time some people around us with radios were saying that something bad was happening at Hillsborough.  By full time we knew it was horrendous and I remember being on the bus going home with people who had been shopping and thinking to myself that these people didn't know what had happened and would get home and find out.  I have to say that of all the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime, this is the one which without doubt had the biggest emotional impact on me.  I think that was because I was a football fan and was actually at a game that day.  It made me think that it could have been me.

Diana's murder - I had been out on the Saturday night and fell asleep on the sofa when I got home.  My ex rang me in the middle of the night to tell me to put the TV on because she had been involved in a car accident.  I stayed up all night watching it in disbelief.  I rang my Mum in shock and told her Diana had died.  She said "Diana who?".  I remember vividly going back into work on the Monday and a male colleague (in his 40s) constantly bursting into tears at his desk all day.  I also remember my dad going to London for her funeral.  This was a very bizarre thing for me, because he had never shown any interest in her or the Royal Family before. 

9/11 & 7/7 - At work for both of these.  Our boss actually sent us all home at about 12 noon on 9/11 telling us to "go home to your families". 

[blueace]

People say you remember what you was doing or where you when iconic events happened?...

9/11?

7/7?

Hillsborough disaster?

Pricness Diana death?

All very sad, but seems one to spring to mind.

Good question.
9/11
Had a betting shop at the time; client comes in and says ‘turn on the news!’, the first plane had already gone in, needless to say was glued to the screen in an empty shop for the afternoon.

7/7  Was in a clients house and it was on the news. My Dad works all around London and uses a lot of public transport, so was keen to touch base; found all phones down when trying to ring the South, but all was fortunately fine, for him.
This reminds me of the IRA Harrods bombing, my brother had gone that day to watch Cfc and was going to pop in to Harrods, fortunately not at the same time.

Woke up to the news on telly of Dianas death, after a typical I think Saturday night.
I remember Elvis as I  was in Ireland on Holidays, remember the landscape as the news came on the radio.
Also Lennon, a mundane return from School with the Ev standard headline.

Funny as my memory these days is crap, so cant remember MJ passing (but then had no time for him anyway) They say bad sleeping patterns affects memory; the perils of poker.

[VBlue]

Dodi Di Dead - in bed after a massive session, lean over to turn on my radio and can't find anything other than some godawful muzak shite.  Far too out of it to move so just lay listening to it and the newsreel over and over for a good hour or two in slight disbelief.

9/11 - at work on lunch and heard about the first crash and then sat in the kitchen watching the most amazing few hours of TV I am likely to ever witness in my lifetime.  Completely engrossed.  Saw the 2nd plane hit and then started to think WTF is going on here.

7/7 and Hillsborough - no idea.  Had thought I was at work for Hillsborough at ASDA as a teenager but dates don't match up.  I remeber that my mate had just moved from Kendal to quite near Tavistock Square and my house extension was being built when I heard about 7/7.

[Waz1892]

9/11?
At work, and the then girlfriend called me from home, saying had I look at the news, at the same time, people were mumbling over the office as people slowly looked at the news.  I remember kind of nervously sort of laughing at what she was telling me over the phone, not quite believing what I was hearing.  I got home after work, and stayed glaring at the news for the whole evening and night.

7/7?
Again at work, and being very scared as my Dad and best mate worked on the trains in London.  All was OK, for them at least.

Hillsborough disaster?
South Stand, events unfolding to my left. I was 15 years old and it was my late birthday present.  My Dads last words to me when I left in the morning was " get there early and swap them for your (Liverpool) end. We never had mobiles phones.

Pricness Diana death?
Laying on the sofa watching the news. I was on the sofa as 2 girls were in my bed.  True story.  I was off to Liverpool vs Newcastle later that day, I was halfway there when they said all sports would be cancelled.  I wasn't impressed!

[scotty77]

Actually I have one - where were you on Black Friday?

I was at DTD at the PartyPoker Big Game. The guys at Party were pretty much popping champagne corks, all the Stars and FTP pros, understandably, were not.

.  I was playing the Friday night comp in Luton.  Tikay was next to me and spent most of the night on the phone.  Was a pretty panicy time for some people there as they were all trying to find out about their funds.  Think I had sub 10$ on both sites so didn't care tbh!

[celtic]

Actually I have one - where were you on Black Friday?

I was at DTD at the PartyPoker Big Game. The guys at Party were pretty much popping champagne corks, all the Stars and FTP pros, understandably, were not.

.  I was playing the Friday night comp in Luton.  Tikay was next to me and spent most of the night on the phone.  Was a pretty panicy time for some people there as they were all trying to find out about their funds.  Think I had sub 10$ on both sites so didn't care tbh!

Aye, I remember that night at the g. All the regs panicking about a combined $36 or something.